'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention... →
Lynda Barry
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth
You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an... →
Mikhail Baryshnikov
I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought... →
Graeme Base
I'm a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think 'The Waterhole' is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we... →
Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
Martin Bashir
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms... →
Rick Bass
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one.
John Battelle
Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it... →
Richard Bausch